From: Russell King <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:41:11 +0000
> In which case why do we restrict floppy to only those machines which
> could have floppy? Why do we restrict IDE to only those platforms
> which may have IDE?
These two examples require platform level support via
an asm/*.h header file.
Whereas the driver's we are talking about use portable
interfaces that should be available across the board.
So, bad example.
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